The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-30
Local and State Notes

The Ohio & Mississippi to day withdraws from
the Central Traffic Association.
In the month of June the c., L. st. L. e c.
handled of Ill foreign roads and fast-freight
lines
A. E. Schrader. ex-trafic manager of the
Illinois Midland road has been in the city for a
day or two prospecting.
c. T. Clark, late yardmaster of the Lake Erie
& Western, has taken a train conductor on
the L., n. A. & c. Airline.
d. j. Chase, it is said, will be appointed gem
eral superintendent of the Chicago, Santa Fe &
California road with headquarters at Chicago.
c. W. Smith, vice superintendent of the
Atkinson, Topeka & Santa Fe road. reached
Chicago Yesterday, where his headquarters are
to be hereafter.
The projected road from Cannelton, via Tell
City and Troy. will pass through a coal field
where it is said that pure block coal of superior
quality is found.
A. G. Wright, roadmaster of the l.. N. A. &
c. (Airline), has been offered the position of
roadmaster one of the most important divis-
ions on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fee sys-
tenn.
The L., N A. & c. people are distributing sew
eral hundred tons of heavy steel rail on the
north end of their road where the traffic is the
heaviest. The light rails taken up are being
used On side-tracks
The locomotive which hauled the picnic train
of the Locomotive Firemen and Brakemen to
Rome City, on Tuesday last was decorated with
nearly one hundred yards of muslin and 3I2
American flags.
As soon as the Lake Erie 6 Western gets it's
road through to Peoria the management will
put on through sleeping coaches between Peoria
and New York. It now hauls chair cars between
Bloomington and Sandusky.
Since the Vandaia passed under the control
of the c., H. & D., tickets have been sold for
points west of st. Louis with old time freedom
at the offices in Indianapolis. The tickets
sold under the guse Of orders.
& livestock train was hauled on Monday from
Cincinnati to Buffalo, N. Y. over the Decline
and Lake Shore, a distance of 427 miles, in
twenty-six hours and thirty-five minutes. which
a few years ago was good time for passenger
train.
Tomorrow three passenger and several freight
trains, each way. will be put on between ely
mers and Detroit over the Wabash number
of train crews will make Logansport their head
quarters, we'll as the superintendent and the
train dispatcher.
Charles Nelson, general superintendent of the
c., II. s. D. and the Vandalia, was in the city
apolis will be made his headquarters. The ques-
ton will be decided as soon as General Manager
Waite returns from the East
The Lafayette car-works yesterday delivered
fifty new box cars to the Toledo, St. Louis &
Kansas City road, being the first installment on
a contract to furnish 500 cars. standard gauge,
to be equipped with the Wagner car door and to
be of 40, 900 pounds capacity.
The first half of 1887 is gone and there has
been no railroad strike of Importance on West
ern roads, and as June is the bad month of the
year for strikes superintendent breathe easier.
1t is stated that not for eight years has there
been such an exemption from strikes as this
year.
The stockholders of the Dayton & Michigan
division of the c.. Fl. & d. system held their an
nual meeting in Toledo Tuesday. But one
change was made in the directory, Geo. H. Stay
nor being elected in place of one of the old board
It was voted to move the general offices of the
road from Toledo to Cincinnati.
P. T. Burke, general freight and passenger
agent of the Indiana e Illinois road, was in the
city yesterday He states that the widening of
the gauge is progressing nicely. Fully thirty
FIVE miles of the road is standard gauge.
Young men have hold of the enterprise and in all
directions the Improvement is being pushed
One of the sons of A. A Talmage wished to go
into railroading few months ago. His father
told him ii right and put him as brakeman
on the Detroit 81 Eel River road, where he has
been since, and is proving to be valuable man.
His father told him if he wanted to be railroad
man he must begin at the bottom round. and he
did.
r. III. Richey. the new yardmaster of the Lake
Erie & Western at this point. has laid down
some very rigid rules. the best of which is
that any empoye who hangs about a saloon will
be discharged. Il is said that since this reform
was inaugurated the business of the L. E. 81 w.
and the L., n. A 81 C. has been done much more
promptly. An old railroad man yesterday said